Type-writer cabinet.



S. T. WHITAKER.

TYPE WRITER CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.20, 1912.

1,144,882. Patented June 29, 1915.

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SAMUEL T. WHITAKER, 0F COLUMBUS, GORGIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO THOMAS W. BATES AND ONE-THIRD TO EDWARD B. REED, BOTH 0F COLUIMBUS, GEORG-IA.

TYPE-WRITER CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 29, 1915.

Application sied August 2o, i912. serial No. 716,100.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL T. WHITAKER, a citizen of thel United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Muskogee and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Type-Writer Cabinets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the arty to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in typewriter cabinets of the type provided with guideways on which a typewriting machine is designed to be run substantially horizontally into and out of an inclosure, and the object in View is the increasing of the efficiency of such cabinets while largely obviating expense of production and intricacies of construction.

`With this and further objects in view, as will in part be hereinafter stated and in part become apparent, the invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, as herein disclosed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing.-Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of a cabinet embodying the features of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section therethrough taken on the planes indicated by line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar section taken at right angles to the planes of Fig. 2, being taken on the plane indicated by line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enlarged, detail, fragmentary view illustrating a section through one of the carriage rollers and adjacent parts. Figs. 5 and 6 are enlarged, detail sectional views of the latch and contiguous parts.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 indicates a stand or table upon whose surface, 2, is mounted a housing or casing 3, which may, for convenience, have a lateral extension 3', divided into pigeon-holes or otherwise according to the preference of the user. The housing 3 has its fron-t open forming a doorway for the full dimensions of the housing, and a door 4 is hinged as at 5, to the front edge of the flooring of housing 3 in position to swing from a substantially horizontal position at rest on surface 2 with its upper face iiush with the upper surface of said flooring to an upright position closing the doorway of housing 3. Said doorway is preferably inclined slightly rearwardly from bottom to top, so that when door 4 is in its closed or upright position it will lie slightlyy on an incline rearwardly and will thus be held closed by gravity if not otherwise retained. Reciprocally mounted in door 4 is a latch bolt 6 having the usual tapered end 7 adapted, when the door is closed, to be held in locking engagement with the keeper 8, by spring 9, the bolt being limited against excessive outward movement by collar 10 engaging the wall of the guideway for the bolt.

Embedded in the ooring oi housing 3 and in the inner or upper surface of door 4 is a track, consisting of spaced, parallel rails 11, 11, divided transversely, as at 12, 12, at the line of jointure between the floor and the door of the housing. Rails 11 are sufficiently embedded or countersunk in the material of the iioor and door to have their uppermost line flush with the surface of the floor and door and intersecting the axis of the hinges 5, so that the rails, at the line of divide 12, are not notched, but fit snugly and form continuous rails, when the door is open, thereby avoiding any jar to wheels passing along the track. A carriage 13 is mounted on the track, being provided with grooved wheels 14 engaging the rails, said ca/griage being particularly constructed to ysupport a typewriting machine, suitable sockets being preferably formed in the carriage to receive the legs of the typewriter.

The lateral shoulder 15 is formed on bolt 6 in position to interlock with the part 16 on carriage 13, when the carriage is in its outermost position and thereby hold the carriage and superposed machine against vibration or tendency to move rearwardly, the carriage being eiectively held against outward movement by upturned ends 11', 11 of rails 11 adapted to be engaged by the front wheels 14. A ring or eye 17 is formed at the inner end of bolt 6, and the material of door 4 is recessed to enable access by the fingers o the operator, whereby the looking action of the latch bolt may be released.

In operation, bolt 6 will lock door 4 whenever fully closed, and if the operator carelessly or otherwise fails to press the door to a fully closed position, the incline assumed by the door will prevent it from accidentally falling open. When it is desired to open the cabinet, the eye 17 is depressed and door 4: swung downwardly, thereby exposing the contained typewriter, which may be grasped and drawn out manually, carriage 13 moving along track l1' until stopped by the outer ends thereof,A whereat the carriage will be lockedA by boltv necessaryto release, bolt.v 6, and press the machine rearwardly along the track until it enters housing 3, and door l may then be closed.

Vhat I claim is l. In a typewriter cabinet, the combination of a housing having a doorway through which a typewriting machine may pass to and from the housing, a door hinged to the ioor of the housing in position for swinging from a substantially vertical position to a substantially horizontal position Hush with said floor, and a track for sustaining the typewriter disposed with the uppermost line of the track intersecting the line of the aXis of the hinge of the door and extending across portions of the door and floor and severed transversely on a substantially vertical line at the line of jointure between the door and Hoor. i

2. In aV typewriter cabinet, the combination ofla housingk having ardoorway through which a typewriting machine may pass to and from the housing, a door hinged to the floor ofthe housing in position for swinging from a substantially vertical position to a substantially horizontal position Hush with said floor, and alined track sections embedded inv the door and Hoor to lie flush with the upper acesthereof when the door isy horizontal, the track being adapted for sustaining the typewriter disposed with the uppermostline of the track intersecting the line of the aXis of the hinge of the door.

In testimony whereof l afliX my signature in presence of two'witnesses.

` SAMUEL T. WHITAKER. Vitnesses: i

CHRISTIE H. FnsLER, EDGAR M. KITCHIN.

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